98: Getting a bit salty

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🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Porkmeister Mike Parry and Rock Chick supreme Lesley-Ann Jones welcome you back to Planet Porky for more cutting-edge news and views. Today's topics include: the recent heatwave, covidiots on the beach, Angie Best, Pink Floyd, heavy smoking, eating salt, living for a long time, using your organs after death, a potential cabinet reshuffle, making money from songwriting, Led Zeppelin, Ronan Farrow's credentials, essential tips to make it in tabloid journalism and The Who. It's the pinball wizard of podcasts, it's Life on Planet Porky.

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0:00.0	Okay, folks, you are listening to Planet Porky. Welcome aboard. Fantastic to have you with us today.
0:28.2	And, of course, on the other end of my line, self-isolating in the depths of Dulwich. Leslie Ann Jones. Good morning, Ms. Leslie Ann.
0:39.6	Good morning to you. How are things?
0:46.1	Well, things are okay, but we're going through a very hot spell, aren't we? And heat as my millions of followers, that sounds a bit, sorry, it sounds a bit big-headed, isn't it? But as millions of people
0:51.0	will have heard over the years, oh, that's just an update on my computer. That's nice. Thank you very much. As millions of people over the years will know,
0:58.6	me and heat don't go together. You know, when I've traveled, as I have, you know, and so have you,
1:05.4	I mean, throughout my career, I was always a cause of irritation to all my traveling pals.
1:12.2	I'm talking about business now.
1:13.3	If we went somewhere hot, I would never go out in the sun.
1:16.1	If we went to a restaurant and they wanted to eat outside,
1:19.0	I had to make sure that it was near a tree where I could get under the shade.
1:24.2	And I just couldn't go in the sun.
1:25.9	The sun does things to my skin.
1:29.3	It irritates me. I get bad,
1:34.7	you know, skin itchings and that kind of stuff. And it makes me feel ill physically. So I have to stay out. Are you a sun queen? Well, no, I'm not. I was in my youth, you know, when we did all that
1:40.7	dancing around to Benny Dorm and the Costa Brava and all that kind of thing.
1:45.0	Yeah.
1:45.5	And I developed skin cancer about 10 years ago.
1:48.3	Oh, dear.
1:48.7	Where?
1:49.4	Yeah, on various parts of my body.
1:51.3	And I've had little bits kind of chopped out and stuff.
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